Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-15

it. The whole Democratic party and its
leaders in this State stand as q solid pha-
lanx against it."
''What is there in the charge made against
Senator Camden that he stands rs the rep
resentative of the Standard Oil Company?'
1T is a mere preteXt 10 prevent his cleo
tion and further selfish ambition. Mr..
Camden is a man of large affairs, and has
accumulated considerable wealth while he
has been developing West ViIginia's won
derful resources, the benefits of which have
Injured to the whole people, either di-
rectly or indirectly, in increasing the
tax duplicate, relieving the burdens
Of the taxpayers in the undeveloped
districts for the support of the State Gov
eminent. There is nothing in his six
him susceptible to the charge of favoring
corporate monopolies. His record is the
reverse. He has not put money corruptly
into elections. When forty thousand
Democrats in the State were prescribed
and Observation-Disclosures the party appeared
to be hopeless and helpless minority, and
was too poor to pay for printing tickets,
Mr.. Camden largely met the expenses of
the campaigns spent his legitimate money
for legitimate purpose; and it comes with
poor grace from men whom he was largely
instrumental in releasing from the thrall-
dom of an infamous and brutal Republican
prescription to speak of him as boodler.
"Nor are you the friend of monopoly
''No, sir; / stand shoulder to shoulder
with the whole Democracy OF the State,
that the corporations shall keep within the
prescribed limit of their powers-shall be
Just TO the people, and the people will be
Just to them. This hue and cry about cor
porate monopoly in the present instance is
used only rs masked battery to injure
Mr. Camden politically-to strike down a
man who was Democrat from principle
during a period when he could have been
Republican from policy, and have grasp
ed any honor he might have coveted. But
johnson n. Camden is not that kind of a
man. His political principles were never
for sale, and his Democracy was above
price and inyincible to proscriptiye perse-
cution."
PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS.
My own personal observation is to the
effect that least 80 per cent. of the party in
tho State are for Mr.. Camden and against
Governor Wilson, whom they begin to
charge with ambitious designs in 1888. But
at the same time find q kindly spirit to-
ward the Governor even among those who
are now most violently opposed to his real
or supposed course in the Senatorial con-
troversy. They admit that he has some
excellent points, but fear that there issome
danger of his joining the ranks of the
chronic boilers. But with the present
muddle out of the way, this feeling would
quickly disappear.
A thorough examination of all the law
bearing on the case irresistibly leads to the
conclusion that the duty of electing Sen
ator devolves upon the extra session re-
gardless of the failure of the Governor TO
enumerate it in his proclamation. As
disinterested outsider ] can say that The
Democratic party in the State is much
more solid for Camden's election to-day
than when | went over the field early in
December. In fact, 1t is pretty nearly
unanimous.
TAYLOR